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THE TIMELINE OF THE GUATEMALAN COUP OF 1954 IMPULSED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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Carlos Castillo Armas, the CIA-backed leader of Operation PBSuccess, driving into Guatemala City. Source: National Archives First of all, it is important to clarify that the coup d'état that rocked Guatemala in 1954 was the result of the covert operation called PBSUCCESS (CIA Cryptonym). As Mainwaring & Schenoni (2018)  rightly points out. this operation was organized by the U.S.CIA to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically elected President of Guatemala, for opposing the interests of the United Fruit Company and for allowing members of Guatemala's communist party - the Guatemalan Labor Party - to influence the most important decisions of his government.  The Árbenz government presented a series of reforms that U.S. espionage considered communist and attributed to Soviet influence. They then spread the fear that Guatemala was going to become what CIA Director Allen Dulles called "a Soviet beachhead in America " (enemy position for invasion). These accu...
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WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE U.S. AND THE PANAMA CANAL ?

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The Panama Canal is a navigation channel located between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The canal crosses the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, with an extension of 82 km. This strait is considered one of the great engineering works of the 20th century because it operates through locks at each end that lift ships to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount of work required to excavate the canal to 27.5 meters above sea level and then lower them to the level of the Pacific or the Atlantic. Prior to its opening, the natural passages used between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn, located at the southern tip of Chile.  However, not many people are aware that after the construction of this engineering marvel, there was an intervention by the U.S. government to take over the jurisdiction of this channel. It is for this reason that for a more comprehensive understanding of this historical process, we offer you a...
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